According to UNICEF 2019, at least 200 million girls and women alive today have had their genitals mutilated, suffering one of the most inhumane acts of gender-based violence in the world. Although the practice is on a decline, the goal is to reach Zero! This is why Africa Youth Trust is working with women and girls to realize their human rights in support of the Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Campaign. In Kenya, there are many forms of body mutilations done to women; FGM being one of them and the practice violates the right of a woman. Women’s rights are divine rights by virtue of women having being created in God’s image. The clitoris is divine because every part of the human’s body manifest God’s likeliness in the human form. God created both ,male and female in his likeliness as one and equal. The clitoris is a small penis and a penis is a big enlarged clitoris. Nobody should remove the clitoris from the body where the creator fixed it.
Majority of women who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation are likely to; loss sexual pleasure, die when giving birth due to scarring and construction of birth canal and others want the government to establish a hospital for clitoris surgical transplant, so that they feel whole again.The loss of one clitoris is like the loss of 20 penises. one clitoris is connected to the brain by 20,000 nerve endings and a penis is connected to the brain with only 2000 nerve endings.
Lets all raise and fight all the retrogressive cultural practices that subjugates women in the society.
#ZeroTolerencetoFGM #Women’sRightMatters #SayNotoAnyFormofViolence
My friend is circumcised and her experience is very different from what you are describing.
If every part of the body is divine isn’t foreskin divine. Your view on divinity is your own and reflects your background not Somali, Pokot, Dogon or any other communities that practise female circumcision. For the Dogon circumcision of both boys and girls is divine. So who is wrong or right? That is the wrong question. Understanding how these acts came to be is important; it leads of respect and a reduction of holistic terminologies such as FGM that portray people as barbaric.
My friend says that the problem is not circumcising girls, it is saying that they must marry and rear children. My girlfriend was circumcised and is doing her masters just like me, a boy. She was not forced to marry after circumcision just like I was not forced to do so. Furthermore, if circumcision was as nasty her mother would not have been able to give birth to her and her sisters. just like her grandmother before her and so forth.
Botched circumcisions are like botched abortions and illegal substance abuse. If you make anything illegal and attach moral stigma to it but there is demand and poor enforcement of the same law then you end up with substandard quality